After two years of planning, some students are raising concern over the ASUC sponsored Berkeley redistricting map because the proposed student district excludes Northside residences, including 9 Berkeley student housing cooperatives and three dormitories. Read More…
UC Berkeley economics professor Martha Olney and her wife have been together for 30 years but during all that time she has been unable to extend her UC health benefits to her wife without paying taxes on the cost of those benefits. Read More…
Bellah is famous for his concept of American “civil religion” — that there is a kind of abstract institutionalized religion at the center of American culture, and that a large part of what it means to be American can thus be conceived of as a religious experience. Read More…
Academic papers published by UC researchers will be available for free through eScholarship, a UC scholarly publishing service, starting in November. Read More…
At about 9:18 p.m. Berkeley police responded to reports of multiple shots fired and found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds. Read More…
The 30-day contract extension between labor unions Service Employees International Union Local 1021 and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555, established after the July strike, will expire Sunday night and may lead to another strike if negotiations before then are unsuccessful. Read More…
The University of California released its 2012 payroll report on Wednesday, which showed that funding from state and educational fees continues to go down while compensation for UC employees remains below market. The total UC payroll of roughly $10.6 billion in 2011 grew to $11.2 billion in 2012. The highest source of Read More…
Otherwise empty on a Wednesday afternoon, the Old City Hall echoed with student voices as City Councilmember Kriss Worthington’s summer interns held a mock City Council meeting. Read More…
Where Milvia Street crosses Allston Way, several bold signs and worn REI tents indicate a group of protesters who have been camping out in front of Berkeley’s first post office since Saturday night to save the institution from being sold. A blue Prius pulls up to the curb, and out Read More…
A water valve in the second floor men’s bathroom of LeConte Hall broke early Thursday morning, flooding parts of the first and second floors of the building.
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